
SAWAN RUPAREL
Vice President of Engineering at Boston Consulting Group X
Sawan is a driven entrepreneur with 18+ years of experience in technology and innovation. Currently, as VP of Engineering at BCG X, Sawan works on leading engineering teams in large builds, leading validation and strategy projects across the healthcare sector. Currently, Sawan’s focus is at the intersection of Generative AI and Healthcare.
May 13th-14th, 2025
You Don't Train For a Marathon in a Lab
Have you seen a marathon athlete only training in a lab? Data reactive systems like LLMs need to hit the road. We will discuss real world challenges on building evaluation set for enterprise workflow systems that will instill confidence in your builds to get it on the road, just like endurance training that requires real-world exposure to terrain, weather and unpredictability. We will draw parallels from when building software changed from waterfall to agile, we needed change of tools and change of behavior. Lastly, will share some learnings from deploying LLM applications in production